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Monday, September 26, 2011

12 Days of Christmas BOM progress

Quality time with my sewing machine and working on a BOM I purchased from Fat Quarter Shop. Although this BOM ended months ago, I've only managed nine blocks so far. Many of these were a lot of fun to assembled. As you can tell, all of these still need to be trimmed and they will each get a border. (For the photo shoot, I just laid 2 blocks side by side.)

The basket and the stocking I like both of these.

House and large ornament. The house was fun to put together.

No idea why blogger turned these around... Candy and more Ornaments. I think i made some errors on the candy blocks. If you look carefully, some of the corners are square and some are not. I will take this apart and fix it.

Again with blogger.

Gift packages and a wreath. This wreath pattern is quite fun to assemble and I made a small mini quilt from it last year.

And, finally, a stocking cap. This is my least favorite color combination. I may remake the block.

While I love many of the prints in this line, 12 Days of Christmas by Kate Spain, there are a few colors that I don't really like. I did some substitutions at times. Once all twelve blocks are done and laid out with borders, I'll get a good look at color. Fat Quarter Shop is very generous with their fabric cuts so I've enough extra to redo a block if necessary.

7 comments:

I think all of the blocks are wonderful - and the colors are lucious - I can't even pick just one. I do like the color combination in the stocking cap - perhaps it will look different when you lay it out. This will be a really fun quilt. The one thing I have found out about BOM quilts is they usually have some really fun blocks to make and I love a challenge. Judy C

I enjoyed seeing these! It looks like you got a chance to do some pretty elaborate piecing, but in small doses. (Can't you just see my mind working? Hmmm....maybe I have to start doing some BOM quilts...!!) I find myself slow to accept aqua as a Christmas color, but when I saw these prints in blocks, I actually loved the addition of aqua to red, green and white! It will be fun to see what you do next with it!

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I've been a quilter for over 30 years although my hobby became an obsession about 15 years ago! I recently started designing my own patterns for sale on Craftsy under my Elm Street Quilts name.
I've 3 kids - the youngest is 18 - and live with my husband of 30+ years in central North Carolina.